Like nomads, but with more stuff

We'd been warned before heading to Calgary to save up for a new windshield or two. Chips, cracks, hairline fractures, the traffic kicke...

For four weeks now (or is it five?), my only car rides have been to the grocery store.  Our shopping list gets longer each week, and each...

Calgary surprised me with the dearth of Hanukkah candles in December, so I was prepared to expect nothing in any store in the way of matz...

It has snowed nearly every day during the last two weeks. Without the office to go to providing an incentive to leave the house, the dail...

The kids and I started our isolations at the same time and we're finishing our third week at home together.  We do get outside most da...

COVID-19 has not made the same deep inroads within Alberta that it has in other places. We have been watching the rest of the world, making...

Our very first snowshoe adventure was in Finland, back when we were posted to St Petersburg. It was amazing, magical, so very much fun. W...

Looking for open ice places to go skating, I stumbled upon the Bowness Park Lagoo n. Having no idea at all what to expect, we packed up o...

Across the street from the Consulate in Olympic Plaza there is a fountain that is made into an ice rink in the winter.  It is free to u...

Our low key Monday was meant to focus on a ski slope in Canmore that had a sledding hill and skating rink. We figured we'd have some...